What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The End,’ on the Obama White House, and ‘Six’

CNN trails President Obama and his staff members as they prepare for the transition of power to a new administration. “Six” tells fictional stories inspired by a real-life Navy SEAL team. And in “Melancholia,” a young bride awaits the end of the world.

What’s on TV

THE END: INSIDE THE LAST DAYS OF THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE9 p.m. on CNN and CNN International; also streaming on CNN.com/go. CNN Films follows President Obama and members of his staff from shortly after Election Day through his farewell address, as they define their legacy after eight years and prepare for the transition of power. Among those interviewed are Mr. Obama; Valerie Jarrett, his closest adviser; Cody Keenan, his chief speechwriter; Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary; Jen Psaki, its communications director; and Angella Reid, its chief usher (the head of household staff). “To watch this program is to be impressed with the magnitude of what will happen this week,” Neil Genzlinger wrote in The New York Times.

FRESH OFF THE BOAT 8 p.m. on ABC. In a Chinese New Year episode, Jessica encourages her family to settle its debts, disputes and grudges so that good fortune will be assured. But will she be the first one to lose her cool? And in “black-ish,” at 9:30, Bow persuades Dre to try anger-management therapy. Her brother Johan, meanwhile, becomes a life coach for the clan.

STAR9 p.m. on Fox. Star and her girls perform for Gladys Knight.

LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT9 p.m. on NBC. A retail dynasty closes ranks after a bartender accuses its billionaire patriarch of drugging and raping her.

SIX10 p.m. on History, A&E and LMN. Walton Goggins (“The Hateful Eight”) plays Rip Taggart, the leader of Navy SEAL Team Six, whose covert mission to take out a Taliban leader in Afghanistan goes awry when they discover an American citizen among the terrorists. But when Rip is kidnapped two years later by the extremist group Boko Haram, those in his former band of brothers put aside their differences in a search-and-rescue operation. Reviewing this new series in The Times, James Poniewozik wrote that it mostly delivers “a grim, uncomplicated shoot-’em-up of rough-edged good guys against savage bad guys.”

What’s Streaming

MELANCHOLIA (2011) on Amazon, iTunes and Netflix. The Danish director Lars von Trier sets a celestial apocalypse to blasts of Wagner as Justine (Kirsten Dunst), a bride whose depression sabotages her wedding and marriage, and Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), her sister, await the impact of a rogue planet that seems to be on a collision course with Earth. Alexander Skarsgard portrays Justine’s bewildered husband; Charlotte Rampling and John Hurt are her bitterly divorced parents. “Mr. von Trier, inspired (if that’s the word) to make this movie by his own experience of depression, gleefully turns a psychological drama inside out,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. “The world, Justine declares in her darkest moment of clarity, deserves its awful fate. The perverse achievement of ‘Melancholia’ is how difficult it is to argue with her conclusion.”